This essay is a bit of departure from my usually reasonable and
logical approach to important issues. That’s not to say that the essay
isn’t well-reasoned and is bereft of logical argumentation, but I freely
admit that it’s polemical, in nature. Sometimes you’re just pissed,
and you need to vent. Here’s my vent…

Lately, I must admit that my hostility towards your political ilk has
ramped up, pretty dramatically. No, it’s not because we, at this point
in my life, have a half-black president in the White House, and I’m
some closet racist who is becoming increasingly frustrated at the
prospects of the White Man’s power slipping through my fingers. I know
that you’ve accused our side of such nonsense, and the thought keeps you
warm at night, but I can assure you that it is a comfortable fiction of
which you should probably divest yourself.

Now before I waste too much of your time, let’s establish who I’m
talking to.

If you believe that we live in an evil, imperialist nation
from its founding, and you believe that it should be “fundamentally
transformed”, lend me your ears.

If you believe that the free market is
the source of the vast majority of society’s ills and wish to have more
government intervention into it, I’m talking to you.

If you believe
that health care is a basic human right and that government should
provide it to everyone, you’re the guy I’m screaming at.

If you think
minorities cannot possibly survive in this inherently racist country
without handouts and government mandated diversity quotas, you’re my
guy.

If you believe that rich people are that way because they’ve
exploited their workers and acquired wealth on the backs of the poor,
keep reading.

Pretty much, if you trust government more than your
fellow American, this post is for you.

Testimony by Benghazi witnesses and victims stating personnel inside the U.S. special mission were not armed directly contradicts the State Department report on the Sept. 11, 2012, attack, WND has learned.

Rep. Lynn Westmoreland, R-Ga., chairman of the House Intelligence Subcommittee, told Fox News that State Department employees inside the mission “were not armed, not kitted up and there hadn’t been any shots fired from our side as far as the testimony reveals.”

Westmoreland was commenting on closed-door testimony given to his intelligence committee.

In contrast, the extensive report released by the State Department-sponsored Accountability Review Board, or ARB, specifically states personnel inside the mission protecting the compound and Ambassador Chris Stevens were armed and had their security kits.

The California family of a Korean War veteran held in North Korean
custody since last month appealed to the Pyongyang government on Friday
for his safe return, calling his detention during a sightseeing trip a
"dreadful misunderstanding."

Echoing comments from their son earlier in the day, Alicia Newman
also said that relatives of her 85-year-old husband, Merrill Newman,
have had no word on the state of his health, whether medications sent to
him were received or why he was detained.

She said her husband was seated on an Asiana Airlines plane on the
last day of his 10-day trip, Oct. 26, waiting to take off, when North
Korean authorities boarded and took him away.

“There’s no limiting principle in the principle they’re invoking,”
Will said on Special Report on Fox News on Thursday night. “That is
majorities should rule all the time.”

He continued: “What this means is if in the spring of 2017 there’s a
Republican president, which there could be, the Republicans still hold
the House, and they have 51 senators, they can repeal Obamacare with 51
votes. And I’m not sure the people who did this today have thought
this.”

With
every fresh leak, the world learns more about the U.S. National Security Agency's
massive and controversial surveillance apparatus. Lost in the commotion has
been the story of the NSA's indispensable partner in its global spying operations:
an obscure, clandestine unit of the Federal Bureau of Investigation that, even
for a surveillance agency, keeps a low profile.

When
the media and members of Congress say the NSA spies on Americans, what they
really mean is that the FBI helps the NSA do it, providing a technical and legal
infrastructure that permits the NSA, which by law collects foreign
intelligence, to operate on U.S. soil. It's the FBI, a domestic U.S. law
enforcement agency, that collects digital information from at least nine
American technology companies as part of the NSA's Prism system. It was the FBI that petitioned the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Court to order Verizon Business Network Services, one of the United States' biggest telecom
carriers for corporations, to hand over the call records of millions of its customers to
the NSA.

A. Barton Hinkle, a Richmond Times-Dispatch columnist andReason magazine contributor, wrote a fascinating and chilling column this week about the Food and Drug Administration expensive and burdensome new menu labeling scheme.

The regulations will “dictate the disclosure of calorie counts for
foods sold in restaurants, grocery stores, delis, bakeries, coffee
shops, and even gas stations,” according to Hinkle. And those businesses
will pay a hefty price to comply with the policy. The federal
government figures the rules will “cost more than $1 billion and require
more than 14.5 million hours of labor to meet.”

The calorie posting regulations, which are expected to go into effect
any day, have been debated for three years. Why? Because it’s confusing
as hell to try to figure out how to force business owners to post the
calorie count for custom made food orders.

A major GOP donor who told Breitbart News
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell made disparaging remarks about
the Tea Party movement and about Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Mike Lee
(R-UT) continues to stand by his original story after claims that the
reports were not accurate.

This individual reported that on the Oct. 30 fundraising call
American Crossroads’ Karl Rove and Steven J. Law held with
McConnell, “McConnell specifically talked about Mike Lee by name,
specifically talked about Ted Cruz by name, and he specifically talked
about the Tea Party by name,” the donor told Breitbart News in response
to a story Rove’s and McConnell’s teams have purported shows otherwise.

That story, published by Charlie Spiering at The Washington Examiner
earlier on Friday, confirms that McConnell “criticized conservative
groups who supported the plan to defund Obamacare” and that he also
criticized those conservatives who “are now actively working to defeat
him in Kentucky.” The article adds that McConnell “repeatedly mentioned
the Senate Conservatives Fund by name.”
Spiering, who says he was exclusively provided a 27-minute audio file
of the call, reports that McConnell did, as Breitbart News’ source
said, talk about dealing with conservative “schoolyard bullies” by
“punching them in the nose.”

The 13-acre
Jefferson Davis Monument Park at Irwinville, Georgia, features the
Jefferson Davis Memorial Museum built in 1939 as a project of the Works
Progress Administration. A fierce opponent of FDR, Governor Eugene
Talmadge ensured that Georgia would receive credit for building the
museum. The land was deeded to the State by Judge Reuben Walton
Clements with the wish that “no Yankee ever own this hallowed ground.”

“[Near]
Irwinville [is the] Jefferson Davis Memorial State Park . . . an area
of some twelve acres commemorating the site where the President of the
Confederacy was taken prisoner by Federal troops at the close of the
war. After seeing Davis arrested, the father of James D. Clements (who
was later one of the actual donors of the park site) vowed to commit the
land to the people of South. A stone marker designates the exact spot
on which Davis was captured.

The
Confederate Museum, of modified Southern Colonial [architectural]
style, contains a collection of documents relating to the Confederacy
and relics of the War between the States. A superintendent is on duty to
answer questions.

The
site of the park is pleasingly located near a trailing brook in a grove
of Georgia longleaf pine. Paths interlace the adjoining woodland which
is in the center of some of the finest farmlands in Georgia.

The
Davis Monument, a granite shaft surmounted with a bronze bust of Davis,
bears on its side a bas-relief panel depicting his capture. Davis had
left Washington, Georgia, where his last cabinet meeting was held, and
with his family was on the way to a Southern port. Early in the morning
of May 10, 1865, he was overtaken by Union soldiers and sent to Fortress
Monroe.

To
the right of the monument a small stream can be crossed to the skirmish
ground, a hillside covered with a growth of wiregrass and tall yellow
pines. A brief engagement occurred here in the early morning of May 10
between a detachment of the Michigan cavalry, attempting to cut off the
Davis party, and a body of Wisconsin cavalry on the same mission. Each
mistaking the other for Confederate forces, opened fire, and harm was
done before daylight permitted identification. A marker indicates this
spot.”

Down go the temperatures, and away go the bureaucrats to the Caribbean, nonetheless.

A group of federal officials skipped chilly Washington this month for a taxpayer-funded trip to the Virgin Islands in the name of protecting the world’s coral reef.

The organizer, the U.S. Coral Reef Task Force, isn’t saying much about the total cost or reasons for the trip or why officials chose the St. Croix beachfront resort Buccaneer Hotel (made famous by an episode of TV’s “The Bachelor”) as their destination.

But
life couldn’t have been too bad for the G-men and G-women at the swanky
resort, which is surrounded by a lush green golf course and boasts
rooms with rates that begin at $323 a night. “Gracious, elegant,
legendary” is how the 17th-century resort bills itself.

A key feature of the Obamacare website that would let people window-shop
for plans and pricing data was one of the few functions that actually
worked — yet administration officials told Congress it "failed
miserably" before the Oct. 1 launch, CNN reported Friday.

CNN reported that documents show the "Anonymous Shopper" function passed
a key test almost two weeks before the HealthCare.gov launch, yet was
turned off and is still unavailable to users.

Its absence, one expert told CNN, is "a major design failure."

Online window shopping "is how people have become accustomed to shopping
online," Sam Karp, vice president of programs at the California
HealthCare Foundation, told CNN. "Whether it's for airplane flights or
shoes, people have become accustomed to anonymously shopping without
entering credit card or personal information."

House Republicans suspect the function was turned off to hide the
sticker shock of insurance plans' costs and force Americans to jump
through hoops before they could shop, CNN reported.

"Anonymous Shopper" was supposed to let people compare health insurance
plans without opening an account, verifying their identity, or
determining whether they qualified for a federal subsidy, CNN noted.

An Arizona teenager is protesting his school's decision to punish him
after getting into a fight with another student over a Confederate flag
displayed on his truck.

Jacob Green, a junior at Millennium High School in Goodyear, tells
MyFoxPhoenix he was suspended for five days after defending himself
against a classmate who confronted him about the flag, which has flown
his truck for six months.

In a video posted at Breitbart.com on Tuesday, a New Black Panther
Leader identified by The Blaze as possibly being King Samir Shabazz,
said that blacks will have to kill white babies “seconds” after they’re
born, while suggesting bombing nurseries.

The Blaze also noted that the host, presumably Shabazz, also said
that “blacks are ‘too scared’ to drag whites out of their houses, skin
them, hang them in trees, drag them behind trucks, and pour acid on
them. He talks about that as he announces the desire for a new
‘military.’”

In another piece of audio posted at Breitbart, New Black Panther
Party Chief of Staff Michelle Williams said the black community in Tampa
is “under siege,” and attacked white people as well as black
conservatives.

While ranting about why she hates white people, she “vowed that as
long as whites keep characterizing blacks as ‘ni***rs,’ her ‘feet [will
be] on your motherf*****g necks,’” The Blaze added.

Remembrance

Winners: Navy Cross Nguyen Van Kiet & MOH Thomas R. Norris This week’s Medal of Honor hero is one of a handful of Navy SEALs awarded the MOH in the Vietnam War. Norris snuck behind enemy lines with a South Vietnamese Navy petty officer rescued two downed pilots in 1972–when most of our resources had been pulled from the country. Interesting to note that later year, Norris was himself rescued by another SEAL Michael E. Thornton.More @ Medal of Honor Roll Call

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Core Creek Militia

==============================My sixth great grandfather, his wife, and five of his six children were killed in battle with the Tuscarora Indians at Core Creek, NC.

The Seven Blackbirds

==============================My third great grandfather was an Ensign in the Revolutionary War, and saved his unit's flag after being wounded at the Battle of Brandywine. He was also at Kingston (Kinston), Wilmington, Charleston, Two Sisters and Augusta. He was at the defeat at Brier Creek and also Bee Creek.

Requiem Aeternam -
Eternal Rest Grant unto Them
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My second great grandfather was killed in action on May 3, 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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My great grandfather and great uncle knew all the men in the "Civil War Requiem" video as they were part of the 53rd NC which was the sole unit defending Fort Mahone. (Fort Mahone was named "Fort Damnation" by the Yankees) *Handpicked men of the 53rd (My great grandfather was one of these) made the final, night assault at Petersburg in an attempt to break Grant's line. This was against Fort Stedman which was a few miles to the slight northeast. They initially succeeded, but reinforcements drove them back. This video is made from photographs which were taken the day after the 53rd evacuated the lines the night before to begin the retreat to Appomattox. I have many more pictures taken by the same photographer, one of these shows a 14 year old boy and the other is the famous picture of the blond, handsome soldier with his musket.
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*General Gordon promised the men a gold medal and 30 days leave if they accomplished their task and many years after the War my great grandfather wrote General Gordon, who was then governor of Georgia about this incident. They exchanged several letters which I have framed. See first link below.
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*The Attack On Fort Stedman
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"His Colored Friends"
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Lee's Surrender
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My Black NC Kinfolks
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Punished For Being Caught!

Great Grandfather Koonce

He was a drummer boy in the WBTS, survived the War only to die a few years later. He was caught in an ice storm on his way home, but instead of seeking shelter, continued on his horse until the end. His clothes had to be cut off and he died a few days later.